Improvement in skylight turrets and conservatories



G. HAYES.

Skylight Turrets and onservaturies.

,153, PatentedSeptemberZB,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcEo GEORGE EAYEs, OE NEw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKYLIGHT TURRETS ,AND C ONSERVATORIES.-

` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,153, dated September 23, 1873; application filed July 14, 1873.

GAsE G.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE HAYES, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Skylights, Conservatories, and other glazed structures, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in a combination, with hollow metallic hanged side posts or uprights, composed of reversely-arran ged troughshaped bars, constructed to receive the glasses, of hanged trough-shaped strips, arranged to straddle and stiften the posts or uprights g likewise to hold the glasses in place, and to act as weatherstrips. The invention also consists in a novel construction of swinging sash, with an overlapping exterior lian ge, for the purpose of more effectually excluding rain and snow.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification, Figure l represents an outside face view of a turret-light, in part, with stationary and opening sashes, constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line w x; and Fig. 3, a horizontal section on the line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A represent the hollow metallic side posts or uprights, each composed of two troughshaped bars, with iianges b b on opposite sides of them, said bars lying with their faces one against the other, and being secured together by rivets passing through their flanges, and with or without a stiffening-platc between the bars. B is a stationary, and G a movable,

sash. D is a flanged trough-shaped strip, arranged to straddle and stili'en the posts A, or such of them as receive the glasses of the stationary sashes, likewise serving to hold the glasses from falling out, and to act as weather- Strips at the joints throughout the length of the posts. Said strips may be held in place bylapping under the upper molding and over the lower portion of the frame, and by one or more bolts, d., arranged to pass through them and the posts they straddle. The swinging or movable sashes G, which rock on side bearings or pivots c, are each constructed, around their lower or outside opening port-ions, with an overlapping exterior flange, f, which, when the sash is closed, shuts down or against the outside surface of the stationary portion of the structure or frame, and in addition to the usual bearing it, against which the sash closes,

formsan elastic outer `hashing that serves most effectually to exclude rain or snow.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of flanged coveringstrips D with the hollow metallic posts A, having flanges b b, for the support of the glasses substantially as specified.

2. The swinging sashes C, provided with exterior and overlapping elastic ilanges f, essentially as described.

GEORGE HAYES.

Witnesses MICHAEL RYAN, FRED. HAYNEs. 

